Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance

ISBN: 9781139534598 出版年：2012 页码：272 Michelle Zerba Cambridge University Press

Introduction Part I. 'Farewell the Tranquil Mind': Tragic Doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello: 1. Achilles' doubt and the construction of a heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad 2. Moral doubt and the contradictory claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes 3. 'Do as if for surety': doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's Othello Part II. Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As You Like It: 4. Wandering Odysseus, pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from alienation in Homer's Odyssey 5. Parody, androgyny, and skeptical inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria and Shakespeare's As You Like It Part III. Skepticism, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: 6. Skeptical constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism 7. Academic skepticism and Cicero's republican politics 8. A Ciceronian Machiavelli 9. Montaigne's pyrrhonist politics.